The WHO has recommended dropping a component of many flu vaccines because the viruses it protects against appear to have been driven into extinction in the Covid pandemic.
I read about one strain of flu that hadn’t been detected since lockdowns last year. Pretty cool side-effect.
Don’t worry, the freedumb people will find a way to bring it back stronger than ever.
It’s pretty amazing that we as a species have the ability to wipe out diseases. Smallpox, polio, now a flu virus.
You’re really going to pat us on the back for letting COVID get so bad it drove a fly strain to extinction? That’s an extreme reach of a flex.
Also this:
But a leak from a manufacturing plant could theoretically reintroduce B/Yamagata viruses into the world
I’m feeling optimistic today
We wipe out other forms of life all the time, be it by accident, wilfull neglicence or malice. Why not bacteria/viruses. Gotta have some good with the bad, right?
That’s pretty neat
Bye bye influenza B/Yamagata
Unfortunately it looks like influenza B and C aren’t actually all that common in the first place with A being in animals and causing most pandemics. This dead virus is a half of influenza B. It’s neat if we killed it off, but probably not any benefit to public health.
I don’t know. I give up!
Well WHO is it?
It’s the plumber, I’ve come to fix the sink.
